Voice device for drinking-wetting dolls



Jan. 23, 1951 J. RASHLEIGH ET AL 2,538,845

VOICE DEVICE FOR DRINKING-WETTING DOLLS Filed Jan. 26, 1950 PatentedJan. 23, 1951 VOICE DEVICE FOR D DOL RINKING-WETTING LS Leonard J.Rashleigh and Orby B. Crowell, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ApplicationJanuary 26, 1950, Serial No. 140,667

1 Claim.

Hollow rubber dolls of the drinking-wetting type have been made with adrinking tube leading from the mouth to a suitable point adjacent theback of the doll. Separate voice devices have been provided which areactuated when the doll is squeezed. This invention is intended toprovide a voice device housed within the drinking tube. Further objectsand advantages appear in the specification and claim.

In the drawing, Fig. 1 is a front View of a drinking-wetting doll; Fig.2 is a section through the doll showing the drinking tube; Fig. 3 is anenlarged section through the section of the drinking tube housing thevoice device; Fig. 4 is'a section on line 4-4 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is asection on line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

In the drawing there is shown a drinking-wetting doll having a hollowrubber body I on which are swivelled arms 2, legs 3, and a head 4, allof the swivelled parts being hollow rubber and the head at leastcommunicating with the body through its swivel joint. The mouth 5 has anorifice 6 receiving the. end I of a nipple 8 on a nursing bottle 9. Onthe inside wall of the mouth around the orifice 6 is a socket Ireceiving a drinking tube II which discharges at a suitable pointadjacent the back of the doll. Water fed to the doll flows out throughan opening l2 in the back, wetting a diaper l3. The doll so fardescribed is, or may be, of common construction.

In the tube H is a voice device comprising a thin walled resilientrubber tubing I4 snugly fitting the bore of the drinking tube and havinga tapered flattened end extending downstream as regards the flow ofwater and terminating in lips l6 spaced to serve as vibrating reeds whenair is forced upstream into the flattened end l5 producing a tonesuitably representing the dolls voice. The corners I! of the lips arepreferably rounded so the central part of the lips I6 is always out ofcontact with the bore of the drinking tube. Water fed to the doll flowsreadily down through the flattened end l5 of the voice device.

If the voice device were reversed in the drinking tube so the flattenedend extended upstream instead of downstream, water fed to the doll wouldtend to collapse the lips I6 and prevent, or at least seriously restrictthe flow.

With this construction, the voice device'is housed within the drinkingtube, out of sight and protected from tampering. Being flexible, thedevice cannot be injured by squeezing the drinking tube. In use, thethin walled tube 14 of the voice device is in tight engagement with theinner surface of the drinking tube so an effectively rigid support isprovided for the flattened end l5 which is free to vibrate within thedrinking tube to produce the voice.

The voice device may conveniently be made of a latex of natural orsynthetic rubber or may be made of rubber like material, the term rubberbeing used to designate such materials.

What we claim as new is:

In a hollow rubber doll of the drinking-wetting type having a mouth forfeeding water, and an internal flexible drinking tube leading from themouth into the interior of the doll, a voice device for the dollcomprising a length of resilient rubber tubing telescoped within andsnugly fitting the bore of the drinking tube and having a flattened endextending downstream as regards the flow of water through the drinkingtube and terminating in spaced lips free to vibrate to produce avoice-like noise upon flow of air upstream through the drinking tube asthe doll is squeezed.

LEONARD J. RASHLEIGH. ORBY B. CROWELL.

REFERENCES CITED UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Crowell Apr. 20, 1943Number

